I'm slightly aggravated because things have been going pretty slow this past week despite eating correctly every day and exercising on plan. One expects that, if one follows a plan, one should see instant results, right? Doesn't one? Yes, one does. Alas, it doesn't work like that. I've been hovering at more or less the same weight for the past week, and it's just annoying. I'd really like to try eating a bit less, but there's this whole deal with feeding my kid. Jeopardizing my milk supply isn't really an option for the next ten months or so, so I can't really cut calories more. It's also tempting to bump up the exercise a lot, but there's also this thing where I'm still recovering from major abdominal surgery, so I probably shouldn't do that either. Sigh. Flounce. Sulk.
I think I need to just be patient. It's more difficult than I expected to figure out a decent pace for this right now. At the beginning, it was easy. I mean, I lost fifteen pounds in about three minutes when they cut a baby and a placenta out of my abdomen and sucked out a lot of goo, and then I lost about a pound a day for the next two weeks as my body dropped water weight and even more delightful uterine goo. Now I'm pretty much rid of all the pregnancy stuff and it's just a matter of taking off the fat that I put on with all the pregnant-lady-needs-ice-cream days I had. I'm trying to remain pretty positive about it. I'm getting fitter every day, and my body is completely capable of comfortably doing everything it needs to do - carry around my brain, sustain a two-month-old baby, get grabbed at by grabby husband. So there's no reason I need to be in a hurry about this.
And really, I'm not doing nearly as badly as I feel like I'm doing. I've lost about a pound a week over the last month, and that's decent enough. Also, today I'm at the lowest I've been since I started working at this, and that's not half bad either. Having more reasonable expectations is a good idea, and I should probably work on that (and on respecting my body for what it does manage to do) just as much as I work on moving my feet more.
In other news, I finished week two of Couch to 5k on Friday! Hurray, I can comfortably run 90 seconds very slowly without stopping! Actually, 'comfortably' might be a bit of an overstatement - I got a pretty wicked stitch in my side halfway through, so the rest of it was slightly unpleasant. BUT! I persevered and shuffled toward the finish line in something resembling a jog, and I'm totally counting it as a win. Next week (read: tomorrow) I get to try running for a whole THREE minutes at a time, and I'm terribly excited. Fear not, I'll report back on it in a great deal of detail.
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It took months to put it on and it will take months to get it off, unfortunately. You are doing great. I'm impressed by your initial loss and I hit a plateau when I was working out that I was on for weeks, but I eventually fell off it and continued the slow descent. At least I haven't gained back to there(yet!) and really need to do something so that I don't. Keep it up, you'll get there. You're good at achieving your goals, this just isn't as easy as an intellectual one! Now, go climb some steps while holding 10lbs and you'll feel accomplished.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I agree - I'm just so impatient. ;) It was great while the weight was dropping so fast, but now that it's slowed down I need to just buckle down and take my time.
ReplyDeleteAs far as programs go, I really really recommend C25K - it's actually a lot of fun (quick to see progress, which is important for me) and can be done anywhere, with or without a gym.